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This is a PhD student in civil engineering department at sharif university of technology ( I was also bsc ms student at sharif same department) me and my wife was stopped at lax on Tuesday then from the airplane they took us to special rooms , after that they took my wife to the other place, one hour later while I was sitting and filling some forms she came back and said "they have given me the visa for one month" , one officer had asked her "have you come to us for businuss ",because her visa was b1 type, she answered" yes with my husband"(my visa also was b1 type) and did not mention the name of suta so that is the reason that she got the visa, but about me after that they took me to another rooms they asked me many questions then they took me to different rooms searched my body with hand so hard and like criminals then they fingerprinted all of my fingers after hours of inspection finally they took me to another room .one officer told me any thing you said can used.....and he aske me to put my hand on my heart and swear to tell the truth . so she asked me some questions and typed every thing I said she said if you say any lie or incorrect information you will go to prison ,I was so frightened ,much more when they say they would separate me from my wife and will send me to prison , every time I ask them why, they said we do not know any thing ,state department has decided , anyway as this was going on one man I think he was high rank came. he talked to me and I said my story ( that I am PhD student , my father is a professor and scientist and his name is in who is who book , also that we are on our honey moon ,showed them our wedding pictures and....) so man gave me his word that he will not allow to separate us and will keep us in airport. Also I was allowed to call my uncle bahman pouranpir and said to him "you can go home". So we had arrived at about 3:15 pm and the time after these events was about 11 pm . we also met another Iranian Mr golshan . while I was sitting tight to my wife I cried and I could not believe why these events happening. There were many kind airport officers that were kind to us and they bring us food. Finally about 11 pm we ( me and my wife ) were taken out of airport with four officers by police vehicle to another part of airport and sent us to room , then we found out that the door of the room is locked and if we want to go to bath or anywhere we must be escorted by officers ,at room we met another suta member Bahareh and we was allowed to have call , also there was water and food in that room . we were in that room for almost 24 hours and then we were sent back.

Some issues:

  1. The whole thing was very bad and upsetting experience.( emotional effect and money spending)
  2. The high rank officer was so kind to us and even he was waiting on the plane to be sure we come back to iran . I never forget he was such nice and good person. I owe him.
  3. There were kind officers in airport and they were kind to us.
  4. if they had known before,they should have inform us not to come to usa.
  5. funny thing , they gave my wife visa , but denied mine, that shows revoking our visas was not based on any reasonable matters because our visas are exactly same.
  6. this event and remarks on my visa will influence getting visa from another countries so they must give us reasons and fix our problems as well as paying our lost.